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Integrate with leading solutions
From accounting packages to inventory solutions, Lightyear offers seamless integration into leading systems in the hospitality industry. Eliminate duplicated work for your team and give them back time they need to complete more pressing tasks.
What you get with your free trial
Industry-leading features powered by AI
Get control of spending
Easily create purchase orders and automatically route them to the correct approver. Send approved purchase orders directly to your suppliers, all from within Lightyear.
Gain tighter control over spending, reduce over-ordering, and maintain an efficient procurement process.
Faster month-end closing
Automate statement reconciliation to quickly match supplier statements against invoices and identify missing documents.
Faster reconciliation enables you to close month-ends more quickly with greater accuracy.
Better inventory monitoring
Automatically 3-way match invoices against the corresponding Purchase Orders and Goods Received Notes, ensuring you only pay for goods that arrive at your venue.
Automated data at a line item level
Suppliers can send invoices directly to Lightyear via email. Lightyear's advanced AI extraction tool pulls line item detail from the invoice, applies automatic coding and routes to the correct approver.
Automated coding enables fast and accurate reporting at a product level. This helps you identify popular produce for reordering and split costs across multiple venues.
Stop overpaying your suppliers
Keep track of price increases and make smarter business decisions to help reduce overheads.
Lightyear automatically flags discrepancies in pricing between the supplier invoice and agreed supplier pricing, alerting you to an increase before payment. You can use this to track price rises throughout the year and negotiate more favourable rates with your supplier.
Don't pay twice for the same product
Don't waste money double-paying for the same products and services. Lightyear automatically detects duplicate invoices and flags these, preventing overpayments and protecting your bottom line.
Automate your approval processes
Set up automated, multi-tiered approval workflows based on invoice amount, supplier details, departments or locations.
Faster approvals mean faster payments for your supplier and give you leverage to negotiate better terms or discounts.
On-the-go approvals
Access and manage purchase orders, invoices, and approvals on the go with the Lightyear mobile app.
The flexibility to approve from anywhere keeps your AP processes running smoothly during busy periods, avoiding payment delays and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
Accurate reporting for effective decision-making
Generate detailed reports across products and services, suppliers, venues or other cost centres.
7 years of historical data means your team can forecast seasonal trends or customer purchasing behaviour based on previous spending. This information helps make smarter decisions, including availing of discounts for bulk purchasing during busy periods or popular produce, or reducing waste during quieter periods.
Trusted by over 7,500 businesses globally
Lightyear delivers, and then some. I have found the accuracy of the data extraction and multi-level approval rules have significantly reduced manual processing costs.
The Lightyear team are fantastic to deal with - knowledgeable and patient. They are more than a supplier. They are an invaluable and trusted business partner, who have the best interest of our businesses to heart.
With more than one million Bills processed, Lightyear continues to be an invaluable addition to Abcom’s suite of business applications.
We reviewed a number of AP apps, and Lightyear was by far and away the best. Their sign-off functionality for managers is unique to all the apps we surveyed. Love it!
Lightyear has an easy to use interface, eliminating data-entry and facilitating better business processes around the accounts payable function.
The software itself is very user friendly, making our processes much more efficient and eliminating our need for paper in the accounts payable process.
I love that all my actions can be done in one place - Lightyear stores/archives all information received and makes searching it a breeze.
Hundreds of our McDonalds clients are using Lightyear - It's great for speeding up the entry of bills and supporting separate bill authorisation.
Lightyear is such an easy platform to use, it saves heaps of your time and every invoice is at your finger tips. The support team is awesome and you never have to wait more than a minute to speak/online chat to someone for advice or help.
Saves so much time. It is so easy to use, and the staff friendly and knowledgeable. It was very easy to train our farm managers to use. We love it!
Lightyear allows us to easily manage the accounts payable process across our entire client base. The parent dashboard gives great visibility across them all.
I've been using Lightyear for a few years for larger clients and have just recently transitioned my smaller clients across. Regardless of the size of business, Lightyear provides great efficiencies.
FAQs
How long is the free trial?
Your trial lasts 30 days. No credit card is required to get started.
Which accounting software does Lightyear connect with?
Lightyear integrates with Xero, QuickBooks, MYOB, Sage, and NetSuite, among others. You can see our full integrations list here.
Will my team need training to get started?
Lightyear is built to be intuitive from day one. The app has a walk-through tour which guides you on each area of the platform. Our team is on hand to help you get set up quickly should you need us.
What happens when my trial ends?
You'll be invited to choose a plan that fits your team. There's no obligation, and your data is always yours.
How much will it cost me after the trial ends?
Pricing depends on the size of your business. Our pricing plans are based on credit consumption. You can view our plans here.